There is definitely a gap in the market for an exploding myths about breastfeeding book

[biskybat]

Was putting my baby books away in the loft today and I had so many different manuals on how to breastfeed and not one of them was any help and all they did was make me feel that my baby was not normal because she only fed for 5 mins at a time.

Mumsnet is the only resource that helped me and rereading some of these books as a breastfeeding mother has really annoyed me as they seem to be full of crap!

Are there any good breastfeeding books out there that I could actually recommend to friends?

anything by william and martha sears,
the womanly art of breastfeeding

Yes, to both of those suggestions.

From a different angle, Gabrielle Palmer's The Politics of Breastfeeding really made me feel determined to breastfeed my DD and by so doing to sock it to The Man.

I never see these in bookshops though,why are all the crap manuals easily available but the good ones only on amazon...I personally hate the claire byam cook one.

Might actually get the politics one as it sounds interesting. Will recommend the others if asked

whats the womanly art one all about?

the womanly art of breastfeeding

The Womanly Art has good info but suffers from being written by/for Americans, and some of the info doesn't translate very well imo, and the tone can grate a teeny bit at times.

'So that's what they're for!' by Janet Tamaro is trying to be that book I think. Although it's also written primarily for Americans. Not perfect but not as terrible as some stuff out there.
I would also recommend the Jack Newman book. He has a flavour of the 'politics' side of things in some of his chapters.